Women kill children at higher rates then men. And this is not including abortion. People who work in the field have been categorizing violent relationships in terms of what percentage of time each party spends being abused and being the abuser for decades. This is clear from the actual research.

I used to be a newspaper reporter, and this lines up with my recollection from reading innumerable police reports. While a clear, overwhelming majority of domestic violence cases involved men using violence against women, there were still a surprisingly large number of cases where women were the aggressors. It was a lot more common than you would ever suspect from the way the issue is typically presented in the media.

One point that might clarify the issue for those who doubt me: While male aggressors almost always used their bare hands, female aggressors nearly always used weapons of some kind. Knives, usually, but also blunt objects like -- yes, the stereotypes are not totally inaccurate -- cookware.

I'd like to know how often in cases of male-on-female domestic violence the confrontation was precipitated by the woman's micro-aggression against the man. The stereotype of the nagging wife/girlfriend isn't entirely made up and must have some basis in fact.

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